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title: Psalms 40:7 (JPS 1917) — Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required. Who acts: Thou. Psalms 40:7 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Psalms 40:7 · JPS 1917

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Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required.

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**Who acts:** Thou · **What happens:** open, burn, not require · **To what, where:** ears, burnt offering

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This is Psalms 40:7 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PSA:661
# text = Sacrifice and meal-offering Thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast Thou opened; burnt-offering and sin-offering hast Thou not required.
1	Sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
14	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
16	opened	open	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
18	burnt	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	_
24	offering	offering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
25	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	required	require	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present · perfect | Thou | mine ears |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ear=Theme |
| 2 | **burn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **require** | present · perfect | Thou | burnt offering and sin offering |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme offering=Precondition |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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זֶ֤בַח וּמִנְחָ֨ה ׀ לֹֽא־חָפַ֗צְתָּ אָ֭זְנַיִם כָּרִ֣יתָ לִּ֑י עוֹלָ֥ה וַ֝חֲטָאָ֗ה לֹ֣א שָׁאָֽלְתָּ׃

[Psalms 40:7: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.40.7/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PSA:661` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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